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<div style="position:absolute;top:200;left:295">The Net Tender</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:289;left:295">Newsletter of St. Andrew &amp; St. John Episcopal Church </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:328;left:693">April 2011 </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:362;left:274"><b>JOINT VESTRY RETREAT </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:393;left:274">The first ever joint vestry retreat between St. Saviour and St. Andrew &amp; St. John </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:414;left:274">took place at the Alcyon Center, on March 12</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:414;left:613">. We were warmly welcomed by </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:434;left:274">co-directors Joan Grant and Kathryn Booth, who later also prepared a wonderful </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:455;left:274">lunch for us. The natural beauty of the setting was, in itself, inspiring. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:486;left:274">In addition to the two vestries, we were also joined by The Rev. Jonathan  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:507;left:274">Appleyard and The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling.  The Rev. Scott Planting, the new  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:527;left:274">director of the Maine Sea Coast Mission, was the moderator.  Liz Graves was a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:548;left:274">guest. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:579;left:274">As background, the leadership of the four MDI Episcopal parishes had been </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:600;left:274">meeting for months to prepare for and manage “the experiment”… the six-month </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:621;left:274">sharing of clergy services among the churches.  The group had come to the trust </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:641;left:274">level of even sharing respective financial information.  St. Mary and Church of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:662;left:274">our Father are not interested in participating in further clergy sharing at this time</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:683;left:274">but want to be kept in the loop. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:727;left:58">After an opening poem and prayer, Jonathan Appleyard shared the news that, after 35 years, he will be retiring </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:747;left:58">from the ministry in the fall, the exact date not yet determined. So St. Saviour’s, like St. John’s, may be calling </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:768;left:58">a priest. We all agreed that it made sense for the two parishes to be planning together, especially in light of our </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:789;left:58">Bishop’s recent letter strongly recommending shared ministries. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:820;left:58">Scott Planting laid out for the group five models of co-operative arrangements among parishes. He himself led </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:841;left:58">a consortium of churches for many years before coming to the Island. We broke into three small groups each </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:861;left:58">with representation from both churches and then reconvened to discuss our preferences.  To everyone’s  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:882;left:58">delight, all three groups had arrived at very similar conclusions: <b>a shared staff cluster</b>, possibly leading to a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:906;left:58"><b>larger cooperative or collegiate parish </b>was the model preferred. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:934;left:58">Features could include: </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:954;left:85">A senior priest mentoring a younger priest, intern or dea-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:975;left:85">con, plus possible use of retired priests (diocesan consulta-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:996;left:85">tion on time and salaries required) </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1017;left:72">• </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1016;left:85">A shared parish administrator </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1037;left:85">Combined church facilities care and shared use of St. John’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1058;left:85">housing availability </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1080;left:72">• </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1079;left:85">A variety of shared worship services, not just on Sunday </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1099;left:85">Shared programs, including music, community outreach,   </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1141;left:85">Shared financial responsibilities </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1161;left:85">Shared energy and best practices (e.g. progressive dinner, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1182;left:85">home for supper) </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1203;left:85">Shared governance and parish responsibilities, with cooperation between the two vestries. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2485;left:455">2 </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1466;left:112"><i>Hope is the thing with feathers  </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1485;left:112"><i>That perches in the soul,  </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1504;left:112"><i>And sings the tune--without the words,  </i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1523;left:112"><i>And never stops at all </i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1538;left:220">Emily Dickinson </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1562;left:58">“[F]or the means of grace and for the hope of Glory.” (BCP 101)</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1590;left:58">Once on the dock, I immediately proceeded to the Fleet’s</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1609;left:58">men’s room, snapping up a ginger snap from the cookie table </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1628;left:58">along the way. In the loo and above now different sounds of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1647;left:58">water, I heard:</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1666;left:79">“for our creation, preservation” ... <i>[sound of  toilet pa-</i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1688;left:79"><i>per roll]…”</i>blessings of this life”… <i>[flush] </i>…“for thine </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1704;left:79">inestimable love,” ...[stall door opens], …  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1723;left:79">“redemption” ... <i>[tap running] ... “</i>for the means of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1742;left:79">grace and the hope of glory” and “we beseech” … </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1764;left:79"><i>[paper towel being dispensed] … </i>and finally the trailing </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1780;left:79">off of “our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful,” as I </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1799;left:79">turned to see the balding pate of my skipper going </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1818;left:79">down the steps of the lavoratory.</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1847;left:58">I resisted the urge to ask if there was cause to celebrate the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1866;left:58">passage of a stone.  It took me the better part of an evening to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1885;left:58">place these familiar words as the General Thanksgiving from</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1904;left:58">the Prayer Book. Even to this day this is a most unusual and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1923;left:58">(among the most wonderful) encounters I have had with the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1942;left:58">BCP.  Common prayer isn’t limited to church on Sunday</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1961;left:58">morning.</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1990;left:58">What odd words. When was the last time you heard or used </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2009;left:58">“unfeignedly” as in: “William, I wish that, when at the table, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2028;left:58">you would use your napkin unfeignedly and in your lap” or to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2047;left:58">your special friend: “I thank thee for thine inestimable love.” </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2066;left:58">Several months ago, I joked to a priest and rector and former </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2085;left:58">lawyer that I don’t use the word “glory” much in my law </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2104;left:58">practice and that frankly it’s a concept I wish were in greater </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2123;left:58">supply in my professional life. Yet this prayer and many oth-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2142;left:58">ers in the Prayer Book has shaped my life in ways too numer-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2161;left:58">ous to count, often in very subtle ways, but shading and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2180;left:58">brightening how I view the world. The particular phrase “the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2199;left:58">means of grace and for the hope of glory,” a favorite, resur-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2218;left:58">faces every now and then when I least expect it. “Grace” was </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2237;left:58">neither a word nor concept I remember in my youth; Emer-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2256;left:58">sonian “Self-Reliance” was more the order of my early-mid </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2275;left:58">1970’s days.   </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2304;left:58">The genius of the English church in the 16</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2302;left:339">th</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2304;left:351">century was to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2323;left:58">put off resolving some intractable and thorny theological and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2342;left:58">ecclesiastical debates between Catholics and Protestants by</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2361;left:58">developing a common liturgy. Cranmer’s particular genius </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2380;left:58">was to synthesize Catholic and Protestant theological ideas in </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2399;left:58">a common liturgy. But I wonder how the tension between </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2418;left:58">regular changes to the prayer book, endlessly tweaking it, and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2437;left:58">resistance to any change was resolved.  Was it simply  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2456;left:58">resolved by historical accident? That unity in the church’s</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1462;left:477">liturgy held off a rending of the church over biblical in-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1481;left:477">terpretation and translation, the role of clerical authority, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1500;left:477">and questions about what is necessary for salvation, etc. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1519;left:477">What we call the “Elizabethan Settlement” could not pre-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1538;left:477">vent the ensuing hundred years of religious skirmishes </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1557;left:477">between Anglicans, Roman Catholics and more reformed </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1576;left:477">protestants, but surely it prevented a larger conflict.  But </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1595;left:477">the idea should endure that a common liturgy can set </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1614;left:477">aside, if not resolve, intractable theological debates. After </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1633;left:477">all, who really knows with certainty these answers?</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1663;left:477">By now, we all know or have heard that the Prayer </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1682;left:477">Book’s starchy and antique language can be off-putting </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1700;left:477">to younger generations. Nonetheless, “Prayer” may be the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1719;left:477">least and last of the issues young people have with the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1738;left:477">prayer book. “B” and in Book and “C” as in “Common” </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1757;left:477">may also be in contention. I suspect (and fear) that this </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1776;left:477">generational cognitive dissonance goes well beyond the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1795;left:477">wordiness of our prayers, or even the particular words, to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1814;left:477">encompass confusion or disaffection over “common </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1833;left:477">prayer” itself, and how those prayers are shared and dis-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1852;left:477">seminated.  I will confess that my perception of this dis-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1871;left:477">sonance sometimes brings me much sadness. Emily</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1890;left:477">Dickson offers us a living hope not founded on words. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1909;left:477">Perhaps there is a way in true Anglican “both/and” com-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1928;left:477">prehensiveness for us to keep our hopeful words and a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1947;left:477">life of hope set free with feathers. That our explorations </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1966;left:477">and embrace of other forms of prayer can provide unity </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:1985;left:477">but not necessarily uniformity, in much the same way the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2004;left:477">prayer book has in the past. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2033;left:477">Finally, first and foremost hopefulness and prayer starts </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2052;left:477">with thankfulness. That’s the first lesson I recognize from</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2071;left:477">reciting the General Thanksgiving. I am “unfeignedly” </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2090;left:477">thankful for my time here on this glorious island, for sail-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2109;left:477">ing and hiking mountains, for friends and family, for in-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2128;left:477">teresting and challenging work, and not least for our life </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2147;left:477">together in this parish and its neighbors. And that brings </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2166;left:477">me hope for our future as we begin further conversations </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2185;left:477">with our island sister parishes, especially St. Saviour’s.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2204;left:477">In hope and faith,  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2223;left:477">Ted</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:1421;left:58"><b>SENIOR WARDEN SAYS HIS HOPEFUL PRAYERS  </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2291;left:538"><b>MISSING — </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2295;left:670">In the clean up after </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2315;left:538">last August&#39;s Capital Campaign kick-off </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2334;left:538">at the Causeway Club barn, I am hoping </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2353;left:538">that someone inadvertently took home </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2372;left:538">one of my vases.--blue glass body, clear </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2391;left:538">glass base, 8-10 inches tall. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3424;left:504">Circumnavigated globe without a passport</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3443;left:504">Canoed down the Maurice River in South Jersey</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3461;left:504">Won two Backside Regatta trophies</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3480;left:504">In 1952 drove coast to coast and back in a 1940 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3499;left:504">wooden-body Ford station wagon</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3518;left:504">Beginning in 1966 worshipped at St. Andrew’s many</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3537;left:504">times, but did not set foot in St. John’s for thirty</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3556;left:504">more years</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3575;left:504">A mediocre right-handed athlete, so plays cards left </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3594;left:504">handed</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3613;left:504">Moved to Maine to avoid thirty-inch snowfalls</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3632;left:602"><b>Who am I? </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2609;left:58"><b>BULLETS FROM THE MARCH VESTRY MEETING </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2641;left:85">Jean Rohrer and Susan Buell were elected unanimously to the vestry to fill the unexpired, one-year terms </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2662;left:85">of Gus Carreno and Jim Vekasi (new by-laws give the Treasurer a vote by virtue of his office). </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2691;left:85">As a consequence of multiple positive meetings between the leadership of St. Saviour, and St. John , the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2712;left:85">vestry approved the following motion: “The Vestry of St. Andrew and St. John affirms its commitment to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2732;left:85">collaborate with St. Saviour’s in a joint mission on Mount Desert Island.  Goals for this collaboration       </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2753;left:85">include, but are not limited to, jointly calling and working with clergy, exploration of common outreach, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2774;left:85">and investigating ways to share staff.” </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2804;left:85">There will be a parish-wide meeting on May 8</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2804;left:433">between the Sunday services to receive feedback from</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2824;left:85">members regarding our future relationship with St. Saviour’s. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2854;left:85">St. Mary and St. Jude and Church of our Father do not wish to participate in the “experiment” after Easter, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2875;left:85">but they do want to continue to collaborate and be kept “in the loop”. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2904;left:85">The vestry approved the year-round rental of the Sawyer cottage to a client of the Davis Agency.  The </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2925;left:85">rental contract will include a 30-day notice to terminate should the property sell. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2955;left:85">The Bishop will be here for confirmation on June 5</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:2955;left:464">.  There will a parish-wide potluck supper with the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2975;left:85">Bishop and Canon Wiederkehr at the home of Dianne McMullan the evening before.  Help gratefully     </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:2996;left:85">accepted! </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3026;left:85">Parish clean-up day will be April 30</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3056;left:85">The Common Good Soup Kitchen will take over maintenance of the St. John summer produce garden.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3076;left:85">Jean Rohrer, with help from Dean Henry, will act as our liaison, spelling out respective responsibilities, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3097;left:85">including the water bill, and ensuring that St John’s Food Pantry clients continue to receive produce. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3127;left:85">The vestry approved the annual parochial report prepared for the Diocese by Sr. Warden, Ted Fletcher.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3148;left:85">Overall, our attendance numbers have remained remarkably stable given recent rector changes.  </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3190;left:58"><b>COMPOSTING </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3221;left:58">Spring is upon us, snow has melted and the St. John compost bins are ready to receive your contributions.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3242;left:58">Please deposit your compostable material in one of the two bins in the church yard.  Throw in any <b>uncooked </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3263;left:58">vegetables or fruit (ex. hard broccoli stems, apple cores, tops and bottoms of squashes and carrots, onion and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3283;left:58">orange skins) , coffee grounds, apple or banana peels, eggshells, and all dead houseplants. No need to stir or </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3304;left:58">turn the material in the bins.  By composting, we keep material out of the landfill.  Together, we produce rich, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3325;left:58">new soil. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3346;left:58">Thank you, Susan Covino Buell </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3399;left:58"><b>SNOW REMOVAL </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3430;left:58">It was a long and snowy winter. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3451;left:58">Thank you for helping to shovel out </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3472;left:58">the church. If we missed your name</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3492;left:58">please let Michele know so you can </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3513;left:58">be recognized. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3544;left:58">Jean Rohrer, Michael Shook, Michele Daley, Emily </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3565;left:58">Blair Stribling, Ted Fletcher, William Fletcher, Carol, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3586;left:58">Bob Stanwood, Edie Stanwood, Mary Vekasi, Stephen </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3606;left:58">Sampson, Connor Mayhew, Dean Henry and Richard </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3627;left:58">Norwood. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3797;left:58"><b>Joint Vestry Retreat </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3822;left:58">There was discussion of jointly calling an interim priest in the fall who has experience in putting parishes  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3842;left:58">together while we continue to work on our structure.  Emily Blair will be moving on in July, but Jonathan will </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3863;left:58">continue to facilitate the process until he leaves in September; and the Bishop and Canon Vicki Wiederkehr </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3884;left:58">will also be available for consultation and assistance. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:3915;left:58">Meanwhile, our parishes should consider: </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3936;left:85">What is our mission, and what gifts and resources does each parish contribute?</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3956;left:85">What is our vision of the future congregation?</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3977;left:85">What should be the shape of our clergy and staff?</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:3998;left:85">How do we approach the search for a priest pro tem?</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4018;left:85">What are some fun, easy joint projects our parishes can start working on together? </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4049;left:58">Lynn Graham and Debbie Parlee from St. Saviour’s and Dianne McMullan and Floy Ervin from St. John </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4070;left:58">agreed to serve on a joint committee to get us started. A second meeting of the two vestries will be led again </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4091;left:58">by Scott Planting on April 9</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4122;left:58">St. Andrew and St. John will hold a parish-wide meeting between the services on May 8</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4189;left:436"><b>QUIETSIDE FAIR AT ST. JOHN - </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4216;left:436"><b>SATURDAY, JULY 16</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4244;left:436">Work is well underway preparing for this  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4265;left:436">year’s Quietside Fair.  We have a number </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4285;left:436">of people signed on to head the various </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4306;left:436">booths, but are always looking for more </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4327;left:436">help.  We are thirsting for someone to take </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4347;left:436">charge of the Lemonade Stand; we have always </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4368;left:436">had lots of volunteer help here. We also need a </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4389;left:436">new chair for the popular Silent Auction, which </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4410;left:436">earns a substantial part of the fair profits. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4430;left:436">(Former chair, Ted Bromage, is willing to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4451;left:436">help out.)  We look forward to working with Ingrid </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4472;left:436">Wilbur Kachmar, the new director of Harbor House, coop-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4492;left:436">erating in publicity and in other ways to make both the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4513;left:436">Flamingo Festival and our Quietside Fair exciting and fun. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4554;left:436">In addition to the Fair, on <b>June 10</b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4554;left:769">will be hav-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4575;left:436">ing the annual St. Andrew &amp; St. John Estate/Garage sale </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4596;left:436">at the Trafton home. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4648;left:58"><b>BEAN SUPPER SUCCESS </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4680;left:58">A Big <font color="#008000" face="Times">THANK YOU </font>to all who helped with the Bean Supper to benefit the Capitol Campaign: Nicole, Floy (and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4701;left:58">daughter), Ann W., Joan, Pamela, Michele, Glenn, Peggy, Wanda, Sue, Chloe, Karen, Vesta, Rita, Mary V., </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4722;left:58">Patsy, Marilyn, Sarah, Vicky V., Ida, Ann C.H., Alice, Edie, Ellen, Carol, Margot, Vickie L., Elaine, Bob, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4743;left:58">Dean, Lori, Beth, and everyone who came to eat and/or purchased our leftovers Sunday morning. All of you </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4763;left:58">helped to raise over $700 towards our goal and fed our community. Thanks Be To God. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4783;left:58">Mary M., Jean and Dianne </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4571;left:59">The St. John singers will meet on the second and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4592;left:59">fourth Mondays from <b>5:00 to 6:00pm</b>. </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4189;left:58"><b>PYSANKY WORKSHOP </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4220;left:268">Ellen Gilmore has </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4241;left:268">graciously agreed to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4262;left:268">lead a Pysanky </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4282;left:268">(Ukrainian egg </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4303;left:268">decorating) work-</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4344;left:268">April 9</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4344;left:333">from 9:30-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4365;left:268">12:00 in the under-</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:4427;left:58">The cost is $15 per person with all proceeds </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4448;left:58">benefiting St. Andrew and St. John.  For ques-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4469;left:58">tions and to reserve your space contact Ellen at </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:4489;left:58">244-7338.  </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5029;left:216"><b>WORSHIP SCHEDULE FOR APRIL </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5075;left:369"><b>Lent 4, Sunday, April 3 </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5092;left:300">8:00 and a.m.—Holy Eucharist at St. John’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5112;left:242">Psalm 23; 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5133;left:348">The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5158;left:364"><b>Lent 5, Sunday, April 10 </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5174;left:277">8:00 and 10:00 a.m.—Holy Eucharist at St. John’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5195;left:247">Psalm 130; Ezekiel 37:1-14; Romans 8:6-11; John 11:1-45 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5216;left:348">The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5240;left:371"><b>Palm Sunday, April 17 </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5257;left:307">10:00 a.m.—Joint Service at St. Saviour’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5278;left:171">Psalm 22:1-21; Isaiah 45:21-25; Philippians 2:5-11; Matthew 16:36-75, 27:1-66 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5299;left:351">The Rev. Jonathan Appleyard </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5323;left:350"><b>Maundy Thursday, April 21</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5340;left:315">5:30 p.m. — Joint Service at St. Mary’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5361;left:156">Psalm 116:1, 10-17; Exodus 12:1-14; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 13:1-17, 31b-35 </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5385;left:255"><i><b>Please sign up on the sheet provided in the Undercroft. </b></i></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5406;left:254"><i><b>Count is needed since they are making bread and soup. </b></i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5427;left:373"><b>Good Friday, April 22</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5443;left:311">12:00 noon — Joint Service at St. John’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5464;left:243">The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. John </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5485;left:348">The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5505;left:162">5:30 pm – Stripping of the Altar and Good Friday Liturgy at Church of Our Father </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5530;left:377"><b>Easter Vigil, April 23</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5547;left:276">7:30 p.m. — Joint Service at Church of Our Father </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5568;left:179">Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16; Job 14:1-14 or Lamentations 3:1-9, 19-24; 1 Peter 4:1-8 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5588;left:328">Matthew 27:57-66 or John 19:38-42 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5654;left:366"><b>Easter Sunday, April 24</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5671;left:277">8:00 and 10:00 a.m.—Holy Eucharist at St. John’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5692;left:208">Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Acts 10:34-43; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-18 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5712;left:348">The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5758;left:205"><b>Thursdays, April 7, 14, 28: </b>12:30 p.m.—Holy Eucharist at St. John’s </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:5829;left:140">April 3 — <i>Report on the Camden Conference, </i>Lucy Creevy and Sam Felton </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5854;left:120">April 10 — <i>Religious Themes in Country Music</i>, Fred Benson, Jim Vekasi, et. al. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5878;left:257">April 17 — No Forum (Service at St. Saviour’s) </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:5902;left:329">April 24 — No Forum (Easter)</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6740;left:58"><b>THE LIGHTER SIDE.... </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6781;left:58"><b>Actual church signs in the UK: </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6997;left:58"><b>More church bulletin slip ups: </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7021;left:85">Due to the Rector&#39;s illness, Wednesday&#39;s healing services will be discontinued until further notice </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7042;left:85">Don&#39;t miss this Saturday&#39;s exhibit by Christian Martian Arts </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7063;left:85">The Rev. Merriwether spoke briefly, much to the delight of the audience </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7083;left:85">Mrs. Johnson will be entering the hospital this week for testes </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7104;left:85">On a church bulletin during the minister&#39;s illness: GOD IS GOOD; Dr. Hargreaves is better </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6520;left:58"><b>Easter Basket Distribution - HELP NEEDED </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6548;left:58">For our Easter basket distribution on Saturday, April 23 (from 10:00-11:00), I&#39;m looking for the fol-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6569;left:58">lowing: </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6590;left:84">FRIDAY afternoon, April 22</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6587;left:294">nd</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6590;left:310">— pick-up of baskets and delivery to SWH Fire Station (3-4 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6611;left:84">cars) </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6631;left:84">SATURDAY, April 23</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6631;left:261">, 9:30-11:00 — Distribution of baskets (2-3 people) and delivery of baskets to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6652;left:84">housing areas (2-3 &#39;teams&#39; or individuals) </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6683;left:58">Please let me know if, when and where you can help. It would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6703;left:58">Susan Covino Buell </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6173;left:270"><b>WESTSIDE FOOD PANTRY  </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6204;left:58"><b>Easter Baskets for our Neighbors </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:6232;left:58">Now that my boys are grown I have two Easter baskets that no longer get filled with chocolate eggs, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6253;left:58">peeps, and marshmallow bunnies each year.  I miss that little gesture of Easter joy!  This year in-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6273;left:58">stead, we are offered again the opportunity to create Easter baskets for our neighbors-in-need.  A </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6294;left:58">basket isn’t necessary—a shopping bag will do well.  Bring a bag or two of the following food stuffs </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6315;left:92">to church on Sunday, April 3 or 10, or leave in church on a back pew thru April 17: canned green </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6335;left:92">vegetables, canned carrots, canned fruit, canned or boxed potatoes, stuffing mix, canned cranberry sauce, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6356;left:92">chicken broth, Jello, cake mix, cake frosting, chocolate bunny  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6387;left:58">Christian congregations across MDI are joining with the Westside Food Pantry and Bar Harbor Food Pantry to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6408;left:58">provide Easter Dinner Baskets to our neighbors-in-need.  It’s been a long hard winter, our pantries have seen </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6429;left:58">unprecedented requests for food this winter, and Christians are ready to celebrate God’s generosity in raising </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6449;left:58">his Son Jesus Christ to life.  The promise of resurrection life is the joy of Easter.  Let’s invite our neighbors-in-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6470;left:58">need to join in the Feast!!   </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:6490;left:58">Dean Henry  </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7391;left:593">Birthdays </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7443;left:648"><b>APRIL </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7464;left:612">1—Sarah Flynn </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7484;left:611">3—Reg Hudson </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7505;left:590">6—Margaret Fletcher </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7526;left:602">8—Mary Parkman </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7546;left:577">13—Susan Clark Ogden </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7567;left:601">14—Kristin Vekasi </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7588;left:594">15—Stephen Fallica </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7609;left:598">22—Diane Krueger </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7629;left:599">28—Ken Cochrane </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7659;left:602">Wedding </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7695;left:558">Anniversaries </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7763;left:563">13—Bob and Julia Winglass </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7784;left:572">19—Jim and Mary Vekasi </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8398;left:642">Spencer Ervin </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8117;left:605"><b>Who Am I? </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7361;left:58"><b>TYING STRANDS TOGETHER…..or…. </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7385;left:58"><b>SENIOR WARDEN’S PERSPECTIVE </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7410;left:58">Patsy Fogarty has written a comprehensive summary of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7430;left:58">recent discussions the Vestry has had with the vestry of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7451;left:58">St. Saviour’s and other Vestry decisions </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7457;left:352"><i>(pp 1 &amp; 4). </i></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7451;left:426">I </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7472;left:58">thought it might be helpful, if I briefly added my perspec-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7492;left:58">tive as one of the wardens in a way that tries to tie some</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7513;left:58">strands together. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7544;left:58">As I think almost everyone knows, the four Episcopal par-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7565;left:58">ishes on Mount Desert Island have been in conversation </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7586;left:58">for over a year on how they can work better together for </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7606;left:58">God’s common mission and the life of church in this area. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7627;left:58">Those early conversations resulted in a six month period, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7648;left:58">(“the experiment”), from October through Easter 2011 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7668;left:58">when the parishes would share programs, occasional joint </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7689;left:58">services, and the area clergy would participate in the life </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7710;left:58">of the other congregations. That experimental period is </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7730;left:58">drawing to a close, and the vestries of two of the parishes </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7751;left:58">have said they would like to continue working towards </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7772;left:58">sharing resources and programs. Two of the parishes </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7793;left:58">would like to participate at a lower level of engagement. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7813;left:58">Also, earlier this month, the Rector of St. Saviour’s, The </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7834;left:58">Rev. Jonathan Appleyard, has announced his retirement in </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7855;left:58">the autumn of 2011. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7886;left:58">The Vestry of St. Andrew &amp; St. John and the Vestry of St. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7906;left:58">Saviour’s held a joint vestry retreat in the middle of </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7927;left:58">March. The vestries identified possible models for both </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7948;left:58">parishes to share resources but also keep and maintain the </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7969;left:58">distinctive qualities of both parishes. Father Appleyard’s </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7989;left:58">retirement provides an opportunity for St. Andrew and St. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8010;left:58">John and St. Saviour’s to call a priest to serve both par-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8031;left:58">ishes.  Both vestries have been clear, however, that they </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8051;left:58">do not see future collaboration between the two parishes </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8072;left:58">as limited to sharing clergy.  The vestries are identifying </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8093;left:58">other areas, perhaps including outreach and communica-</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8113;left:58">tions, where St. Saviour’s and St. Andrew &amp; St. John </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8134;left:58">might work together. That list has yet to be developed by </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8155;left:58">the vestries. To be sure, both parishes find themselves </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8175;left:58">bound by resource constraints, and those constraints are </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8196;left:58">by no means limited to finances, but include demographic </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8217;left:58">changes in the parishes and surrounding community and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8238;left:58">other complex factors. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8269;left:58">I firmly believe that God is calling us to find our gifts in </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8289;left:58">new places and to share our gifts in new ways. I believe</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8310;left:58">collaboration with St. Saviour’s will allow us to shift  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8331;left:58">resources in ways that will go to the greater glory of God.  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8351;left:58">Ted Fletcher </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7874;left:511"><b>LENTEN ALMS PROJECT  </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:7902;left:511">The Church’s season of Lent, and its disciplines </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7923;left:511">of <i>prayer, fasting, and alms giving</i>, witness to </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7944;left:511">us our own need of living more generously and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7964;left:511">graciously toward others.  Why? Because God </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:7985;left:511">hopes his own generosity and grace towards us </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8006;left:511">will be returned to her via others.  That’s how </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8026;left:511">the Love that God <i>is </i>flows—generously and </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8047;left:511">graciously through God, and you, and me, and </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8549;left:45">The Net Tender - </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8560;left:281">April 2011</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8594;left:93">St. Andrew &amp; St. John Episcopal Church </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8624;left:45">315 Main Street ● P.O. Box 767 ● Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8639;left:45">Phone: Church Office 207-244-3229 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8655;left:45">E-mail: <b><a href="mailto:saints315@myfairpoint.net" target="_blank">saints315@myfairpoint.net</a> </b>/ website: <b><a href="http://www.saintsmdi.org" target="_blank">www.saintsmdi.org</a> </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8674;left:45"><b>Office Hours: </b>Monday · Tuesday · Thursday, 8:30 a.m.—2:30 p.m.</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9151;left:139"><b>INSIDE: </b></div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9168;left:68">Anniversaries/Birthdays</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9168;left:251">7 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9185;left:68">Bean Supper</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9185;left:251">4 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9202;left:68">Composting</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9202;left:251">3 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9220;left:68">Forums</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9220;left:251">5 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9237;left:68">Joint Vestry Retreat </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9237;left:239">1/4</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9254;left:68">Lenten Alms Project</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9254;left:251">7 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9271;left:68">Lighter Side</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9271;left:251">6 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9289;left:68">Pysanky Workshop</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9289;left:251">4 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9306;left:68">Quietside Fair </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9306;left:251">4</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9323;left:68">Sr. Warden’s Notes</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9323;left:251">2 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9340;left:68">Thank You </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9340;left:251">3</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9358;left:68">Tying Strands Together</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9358;left:251">7 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9375;left:68">Vestry Bullets </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9375;left:251">2</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9392;left:68">Westside Food Pantry</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9392;left:251">6</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9409;left:68">Who Am I?</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9409;left:239">3/7 </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9426;left:68">Worship Schedule/Scripture 5 </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:8729;left:45"><b>Priest Associate </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8744;left:45">Emily Blair Stribling </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8768;left:45"><b>Parish Administrator </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8783;left:45">Michele Daley  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8808;left:45"><b>Music Director</b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8823;left:45">Stephen Sampson </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8848;left:45"><b>Editors </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8862;left:45">Nicole Carreno </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8883;left:45">Mary Vekasi </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:8904;left:45">Anne Wetzel </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9482;left:59">If you no longer wish to receive the</div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9499;left:59">Net Tender or prefer to receive it by  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9516;left:59">e-mail, please call the church office. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9558;left:97">Deadline for articles for  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9575;left:80">May Net Tender is April 22</div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9272;left:450">If you wish to remember or honor loved  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9293;left:450">ones by making a contribution to the  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9314;left:450">Easter flower fund at St John, please  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9334;left:450">send a contribution to the church office  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9355;left:409">or leave a check in the offering plate indicating </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9376;left:382">&quot;Easter flowers&quot; in the memo.  On the forms  provided at </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9396;left:382">church,  state who is being honored or remembered.  If </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9417;left:382">you are sending a contribution from home, please include </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9438;left:382">this information.  The names of those being remembered </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9458;left:382">and honored will be listed in the church bulletin on Easter  </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9479;left:382">Sunday. </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9500;left:436">Thank you, </div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9520;left:436">Ginny and Susan </div>
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<div style="position:absolute;top:9197;left:536"><b>EASTER </b></div>
<div style="position:absolute;top:9228;left:520"><b>FLOWERS</b></div>
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